rubricate v 1: place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint; "She was rubricated by the pope" 2: furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics; "the manuscript is not rubricated" 3: decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated" [syn: {miniate}, {rubricate}] 4: sign with a mark instead of a name
Rubricate \Ru"bri*cate\, a. [L. rubricatus p. p. of rubricare to color red. See {Rubric}, n.] Marked with red. --Sp?lmman. [1913 Webster]
Rubricate \Ru"bri*cate\, v. t. To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. --Foxe. [1913 Webster] A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after. --Hare. [1913 Webster] Rubrician